Double amputee teen intends to soar as pilot

Resilient spirit inspires flying school to give girl all-expense paid lessons

An earthquake buried Huang Meihua in the rubble of her primary school, crushing the then 11-year-old's legs, but not her spirit.

The resilience she showed in the days after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008, waiting helplessly in a makeshift shed without medical care, has continued to define her character.